Translation, Interpretation and Understanding

He goes on to accept the doctrine that associates having a language with having a conceptual scheme (VIC 6), and identifies conceptual schemes with sets of intertranslatable languages. Together with the belief (which Davidson endorses [VIC 8]) that nothing can count as a language unless it is translatable into our own language this doctrine leads to the conclusion (which Davidson does not accept [VIC 20]) that all speakers of language share a common conceptual scheme. Davidson argues that we can neither intelligibly say that such schemes are different nor intelligibly say that they are one (VIC 20). Contrary to Davidson I will argue that